This is obvious. The lens is Sapphire, and Sapphire is purple. So when you have a bright light it may come through purple, depending on the angle, not unlike light coming through yellow or red on regular glass depending on the angle.

TEG24601:This is obvious. The lens is Sapphire, and Sapphire is purple. So when you have a bright light it may come through purple, depending on the angle, not unlike light coming through yellow or red on regular glass depending on the angle.

TEG24601:This is obvious. The lens is Sapphire, and Sapphire is purple. So when you have a bright light it may come through purple, depending on the angle, not unlike light coming through yellow or red on regular glass depending on the angle.

"You're Holding the Phone Wrong" is a great tune, but I worry. Rather than writing new singles, they're just coasting on their old greatest hits collection. This is usually when you can tell a band is going downhill.

The iPhone camera is used for spur of the moment shots, not for serious photography. Anyone trying to pin "limited camera feature" on a smartphone needs to get in touch with reality. Go buy a medium format DSLR if you want great photos.

If you want the greatest smartphone on the market today, get over the lens flare and get yourself an iPhone 5.

markie_farkie:99% of the population will be too busy taking Instagram photos of their cats and posting them on Facebook to notice.

This.

It's not easy to deal with lens flare sometimes, from a lens design standpoint. Heck, $6000 DSLRs (the irrelevant part) with $3000 lenses (the relevant part) can suffer from bad flare problems depending upon the direction of the lens relative to bright light sources. This is often why reviewers and consumers are interested in the flare characteristics of a particular lens when researching or purchasing said lens. This will be something that users will just need to deal with, though I suspect few will notice.

Aye Carumba:fusillade762: Between this and their f-d up mapping feature I'm thinking they didn't do ANY testing.

This kind of fark up can only be perpetrated by senior management, don't blame QA.

Been in the QA industry for over 10 years. You are right about it being senior management's fault. It's their fault for outsourcing their QA to China, Indians usually do a better job.

Seriously, nobody took pictures with the phone to test it? Nobody did any QA on the easily scuffed case of the iphone 5. Seems to me they decided that since it's been working before nothing is broke and they don't need to test it.

Oh Apple, you have your sheep so well deluded that you don't even have to send your products through QA anymore, you should hit $1,000,000,000,000.00 in no time.

Last week I bought myself a Samsung Rugby Smart at the same time that three coworkers all got the new iphone. For some reason nobody gave a rat's ass about the new apple gadgets, but people won't stop asking me about my awesome unbreakable phone.

HotWingAgenda:Last week I bought myself a Samsung Rugby Smart at the same time that three coworkers all got the new iphone. For some reason nobody gave a rat's ass about the new apple gadgets, but people won't stop asking me about my awesome unbreakable phone.

The smug is suffocating me.

i love this so much i'm just going to say i love this so much and skip the snark i was going to post.

It's not the color of the crystal/glass being used in the lens assembly, it's how light coming in at an angle is refracted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration

Purple halos around bright objects? Sounds about right.

Apple should've spent less money on the fancy scatchproof front lens element and more on designing a functional camera lens. This amount of aberration is inexcusable at any price point greater than two digits.

HotWingAgenda:Last week I bought myself a Samsung Rugby Smart at the same time that three coworkers all got the new iphone. For some reason nobody gave a rat's ass about the new apple gadgets, but people won't stop asking me about my awesome unbreakable phone.

The smug is suffocating me.

Seems worth repeating, if only to add some variety to the utter tedium that is an Apple hate thread.

AverageAmericanGuy:The iPhone camera is used for spur of the moment shots, not for serious photography. Anyone trying to pin "limited camera feature" on a smartphone needs to get in touch with reality. Go buy a medium format DSLR if you want great photos.

If you want the greatest smartphone on the market today, get over the lens flare and get yourself an iPhone 5.

What if i don't? What if I want a mundane, ordinary, unremarkable smartphone that matches my own mediocrity?What good is your fancy "iPhone5" to me then, eh, smart guy?

Yaeh well I don`t care, the Iphone is bestest at EVERTHING! It doesn`t matter if other phones do things better. Why did you get a phone with a camera? get a $1000 camera if you want to take pictures! IDIOT!

next you will say you want a map feature that can tell you where to go!

I'm not a phone fanboy by any means (I have an aincient HTC Desire if you must know) but I'm sure we can find a more credible source regarding an issue with an iPhone than a site dedicated to windows phones.

Our engineering team just gave me this information and we recommend that you angle the camera away from the bright light source when taking pictures. The purple flare in the image provided is considered normal behavior for iPhone 5′s camera. If you wish to reach me regarding this case number *********, please contact me at 1-877-***-**** ext. *******. I currently work Thursday-Monday: 7:00am - 3:30pm Mountain Time. If you reach my voicemail, please leave your name, phone number, case number and the best time to reach you. Email is **­****­*­**­**el­pp­a­c­om.

Sincerely,DebbyAppleCare Support"

Dear matt, You are holding the phone the wrong way. AGAIN.Sincerely,DebbyAppleCare Support

Need a Dispenser Here:I'm not a phone fanboy by any means (I have an aincient HTC Desire if you must know) but I'm sure we can find a more credible source regarding an issue with an iPhone than a site dedicated to windows phones.

MrSplifferton:Aye Carumba: fusillade762: Between this and their f-d up mapping feature I'm thinking they didn't do ANY testing.

This kind of fark up can only be perpetrated by senior management, don't blame QA.

Been in the QA industry for over 10 years. You are right about it being senior management's fault. It's their fault for outsourcing their QA to China, Indians usually do a better job.

Seriously, nobody took pictures with the phone to test it? Nobody did any QA on the easily scuffed case of the iphone 5. Seems to me they decided that since it's been working before nothing is broke and they don't need to test it.

Oh Apple, you have your sheep so well deluded that you don't even have to send your products through QA anymore, you should hit $1,000,000,000,000.00 in no time.

/sigh

It seems that way. Or they are basically selling everyone a beta version of the iPhone 6 and hoping they get away with it because of brand loyalty. See which "shortcuts" in quality they can get away with.

AverageAmericanGuy:The iPhone camera is used for spur of the moment shots, not for serious photography. Anyone trying to pin "limited camera feature" on a smartphone needs to get in touch with reality. Go buy a medium format DSLR if you want great photos.

heavymetal:It seems that way. Or they are basically selling everyone a beta version of the iPhone 6 and hoping they get away with it because of brand loyalty. See which "shortcuts" in quality they can get away with.

I'm not sure about this, but the Maps thing was obviously not good. In the first 3 days after iOS6, I saw 3 tweets out of my 150 followers highlighting problems with iOS maps that they'd found, just using it to find places. I can't believe that during the field testing that Apple guys weren't coming back and saying that it wasn't very good.

I think Apple knew it was not good, but also that a lot of users will be tolerant of "we'll fix it soon" and that a lot can't do anything for a year or two about changing phones, and figure they've got that time to at least get it to being OK, so that people will figure that they might as well stick with iOS. It's not something I'd tolerate because I'd figure that if a company will take that attitude to me once, they'll do it again, but some people may not think like me.